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Video Display Generator

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VDG

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Power-on screen of a CoCo 2

The MC6847 is display generator capable of displaying text and graphics contained within a roughly square display matrix 256 pixels wide by 192 lines high. It can display 9 colors: black, green, yellow, blue, red, buff (almost-but-not-quite white), cyan, magenta, and orange.

Alphanumeric/Semigraphics display

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Sample character set display of 6847 VDG

The CoCo is physically wired such that its default alphanumeric display is actually "Semigraphics 4" mode.